Rail-joint



No. 752,567. PATBNTED FEB. 16, 1-904. w. w. KBRGHER. RAIL JOINT.

APPLIOATIGN FILED SEPT. 19, 1903.

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UNITED STATES,

Patented February 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 752,567, dated February16, 1904.

Application filed eptember 19, 1903. Serial No. 173,864. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that LWHEELER W. KEROHER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to railway-rail joints of the scarftype, in which the abutting ends of the rails are scarfed and joined byfish-plates bridging the joint.

It is characterized by improvement with respect to the scarf and the useof a joint-chair supporting the abutting ends of the rails and engagingflanges on the lower edges of the fishplates.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the joint.Fig. 2 is a top view thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the abutting ends of two railsare indicated at 6. These are scarfed at a bevel, as indicated at 7preferably at forty-five degrees, so that ends will not have to bespecially matched. The bevel or miter extends through the tread; web,and base of the rail. The abutting ends are lapped by the fish-plates 8,securedin the usual manner by through-bolts 9. The lower edges of thefish-plates are flanged, as at 10, and these flanges taper to an edgeand lie upon the base of the rails.

At 11 a rail-chair is indicated bridging the joint and having up andinturned flanges 12 at both edges, which overlie the edges of theflanges of the fish-plates and the edges of the rail-base.

The parts thus described form when assembled a securely bound andsupported railjoint. The bevel-joint avoids the objectionable bumpingincident to square joints, and the rail-chair binds the fish-plates tothe base of the rails and prevents lifting or spreading of the endsthereof.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is-The combination of rails, having the abutting ends cut at a bevelextending'through the heads, webs, and base-flanges, fish-plates lappingthe said ends and having downwardlybeveled lower flanges extending oversaid base-flanges and terminating inwardly from the outer edges of thelatter, a chair-plate extending snugly under the base-flanges of therails and having upwardly-extending inturned flanges gradually reducedtoward their free edges and overlapping the outer edges of the saidbase-flanges of the rails and the reduced edges of the lower flanges ofthe fish-plates.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WHEELER W. KERCHER.

Witnesses:

(J. E. GARDNER, CHAS. M. Snow.

